page_title: 86th United States Congress
section_title: Constitutional amendments
hierarchical_section_title: 86th United States Congress / Constitutional amendments
caption_attribution_description: Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
context_page_description: The 86th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1961, during the last two years of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950 until Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states in 1959. Then, the membership of the House temporarily increased to 437; it would remain at 437 until reapportionment resulting from the 1960 census.
  Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
context_section_description: June 16, 1960: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution extending the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification
  Amendment was later ratified on March 29, 1961, becoming the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
caption: The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the 23rd Amendment as contained in the National Archives
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